[From The Watchman.]
Faithfulness to Principle should be intelligently maintained. There is a vast difference between blindly holding to a certain creed, upon the advice and recommendation of some religious leader or some personal friend, and intelligently believing and practising a true and well-defined system of truths and doctrines.
He who believes and practises certain religious rites and customs, simply because his father and mother have told him that he ought to do so, will not be likely to intelligently maintain his position. It may be that his parents intelligently maintain a true fidelity to Principle; but it does not follow that he does, if he simply relies upon what his parents have told him.
